Duarte

Just checking in with a bit of funk

A discovery I made today! It's nice. Reminds me of The Expanders...

That bass

Sign me up - love it! Although I am disappointed it won't be upside down for me. Presumably it comes in lefty!

My Redwood Concert ukue is great. I bought it for the same reason as you, and had no experience in playing the uke. I went for the concert as it's just big and loud enough for a class of children to hear it. I'm unsure if the model still exists, as all I can see on their product range is around the £60 mark - but I paid around £250 in PMT. I trust you won't have any issues teaching the Uke, it's easy to get to grips with the basics. However, don't allow the kids to get better than you, which happened to me in my year 8 class.

This is interesting - feel the total opposite. I really enjoy hearing new interpretations and arrangements of songs that I know and love. To me it keeps the material fresh and relevant. An extreme example would be the band Eels. Every time they tour, the band goes in a different direction. One time I saw them they had horns and played soulful versions of their classics, another time they were a 4 piece punk band, another time it was orchestral. Same songs, but a totally different experience each time. I'll keep going, partly for the anticipation of what I'm going to get. Another artist I've seen many times in George Clinton, whose band roster changes with every tour. You could have any combination of P-funk elders and new recruits, bringing elements of metal, trap, jazz, classic p-funk or anything to the sound. Each lead guitarist in p-funk has their own interpretation of Maggot Brain, which is always a journey. Also I enjoy spotting members that I recognise and looking up members that I didn't recognise. The Prodigy play reimagined version of tunes from the 90s to keep them up to date, which is important in electronic music. They'll perform mad arrangements of classic rave tunes at one gig, then never again, and you will never hear it again. That makes each gig unique and special. It also means the only way to re-experience a specific version of a song might be a shaky 30 second long youtube clip, so it exists only as a memory.

I feel so lucky to be in a world where I can see many of the musical legends that I was brought up on - there's no point where artists 'should' retire when the likes of Dolly Parton or George Clinton, at a million years old, are still crushing it, with new material and quality sets.

Smashed it!!

Go on then. This new (old) Tokai bass is too fun to play.

I find that posting on youtube is a good incentive to play and learn when not otherwise playing with others - even if nobody watches, there's a purpose to the practice. Anyway, here's a hidden gem of a Funkadelic track, totally eclipsed by Not Just Knee Deep on the same album. Just a solid jam.

Always good to see some sterling love

Very nice! I'm a fan of single ply black too. I thought about doing the Jag with a black anodised, including control plate - jazzmaster style.

My short scale squier, that I bought in 2016, left in a share house in Sydney in 2017, and hadn't seen since until yesterday! I lived in Thailand and China for 5 years, meanwhile, the Jag hasn't been out of its case. It's great! Thinking of pimping it a bit. Black hardware, some kind of high output pickups, that kind of thing.

You could always take the Marcus Geard route.... suddenly weight isn't an issue! (translation: buy it)

sorry

I've been slappin' the same pentatonic scales with poor technique for about 10000 hours.

She sounds fabulous - just been getting acquainted with her this evening.

I've been blasting No Nuclear War by Peter Tosh too loudly recently. It's just so so good.

Just a reggae groove with my new Tokai Hard Puncher.

I feel the same about red basses, usually. But my first reaction when the seller pulled it out of its case was "woah, that's really red" and I was converted. Back of the neck is red too. And hey, if drag Arnie is the image this bass conjured in my mind - must be a good'n!

As the title suggests... I've moved country and needed a bass to keep me company while the others are back waiting for me overseas. The Tokai came up for a good deal on gumtree, I went to check it out and couldn't leave without it. This thing is mad. It's hot, bling, garish and built like an anvil. Sounds ballsy and plays superbly too. It's like if Arnold Schwarzenegger were a drag queen, but it's a bass. Anyway, here's pics.